RAW MATERIAL & TRAVERSE THEATRE COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION IN ASSOCIATION WITH CITIZENS THEATRE

SO YOUNG

Written by Douglas Maxwell 

Directed by Gareth Nicholls
Set & Costume Design by Kenny Miller
Lighting Design by Kate Bonney 
Sound Design by Niroshini Thambar
Sound Associate Nik Paget-Tomlinson
Intimacy Director Emily Jane Boyle 

CAST:

Andy Clark Davie
Yana Harris Greta
Robert Jack Milo
Lucianne McEvoy Liane

Production Manager Ali Low
Company Stage Manager Katharina Siebert 
Technical Stage Manager Rebecca Munro  
Costume Supervisor Victoria Brown 
Executive Producer Margaret-Anne O’Donnell
Executive Producer Gillian Garrity 
Associate Producer Jana Robert 
Marketing Manager/Designer Niall Walker 
Social Media Manager Nicola Watson 
Press Sharon McHendry (SM Publicity) 
Bookkeeper Mark Jacques

Thanks to: Conor Burgess, Leah Byrne, Casey Campbell, Paul Claydon & Dan Quayle at EIF, Ewan Donald, Keith Fleming, Scott & Amanda Gilmour, Catherine Idle, Katie James, Nicholas Karimi, Louise Ludgate, Cleo Rose McCabe, Martin McCormick, National Theatre of Scotland, Frances Poet, Rich Price & Malcolm Stephen, Gillian Richards, Andy Smith at Stagehire Scotland, Naomi Stirrat, Tron Theatre.

Photography by Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.

Andy studied at Dundee College and RSAMD (now RCS). He was a member of Dundee ​Rep Ensemble from 2000 - 03 appearing in over 20 productions including The Plague, The Mill Lavvies, Mince, The Land of Cakes and The Winter's Tale. Other theatre work includes Wild Rose (Royal Lyceum/Caledonia Productions), Tally’s Blood (Perth/Cumbernauld/ Ayr Gaiety), Tartuffe, The Cherry Orchard (Lyceum), Measure For Measure (Theatr Clwyd), A Steady Rain (Theatre Jezebel/Tron), Little Sure Shot ( Leeds Playhouse/The Egg), Gastronauts (Royal Court), I’m With the Band (Traverse), Vernon God Little (Young Vic) Lampedusa, The Libertine, Hamlet, Othello, Peter Pan & A Handful of Dust (Citizens).  

 Radio includes Killing Kate, Boswell At Large, Big Sky, Five of Spades, Rebus (BBC Radio 4).  

 Television & Film include Float (Black Camel Pictures), Shetland (ITV/BBC1), The Control Room (Hartswood Films), Guilt (BBC), Annika (Black Camel Pictures), Dog Squad (CBeebies), River City, Bob Servant (BBC Scotland), Rebus, Taggart (STV) & The Da Vinci Code (Rose Line).  

Yana Harris is an actor and musician from the Scottish Showman community and founding member of the Showman’s Theatre Company. Yana trained at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. 

Theatre Credits include: Meme Girls (Play, Pie, Pint), Frankie Stein (Stellar Quines), Aladdin (PACE), There’s a Place (Perth Theatre), So Young (Traverse/Citizens Theatre), Snow Queen (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), 90 Days (So Strong), Scots (Play, Pie, Pint/Noisemaker), Underwood Lane (Tron Theatre), Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk (South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture), Big Wheel (Showmen's Theatre) 

TV and Film Credits include: Super Split (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), Dogbone (Own Agenda), Unfair (Channel 4/Young Films), Double Date (BBC) 

Recent theatre includes: Small Acts of Love (Citizens' Theatre); Medea (National Theatre of Scotland); Aladdin & Rapunzel (Macrobert Arts Centre); Metamorphosis & The Dark Carnival: Unplugged (Vanishing Point); The Alchemist (Tron Theatre); Ulster American (Traverse Theatre); Rhinoceros (Royal Lyceum/DOT Theatre). 

Feature films include: The Lost King directed by Stephen Frears; My Son directed by Christian Carion; and Damaged directed by Terry McDonough. 

Television includes: The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (World Productions/BBC); Shetland (Silverprint/BBC); Succession (HBO); Nicky in The Last Czars (Netflix) and Dad in both series of Princess Mirror-Belle (BBC). Robert also played Jacko in all three series of Gary: Tank Commander for the BBC. 

Recent radio credits include: 150 Days; Rituals; The Golden Key; An Eye For a Killing; The Five Thousand; Life Rights; The Breach and This Thing of Darkness: Series 2 (BBC). Robert was also in both series of Earwig (Tron Theatre). 

Lucianne trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College Dublin.  

Film - The Problem With People, Black Wool, Dead Shot, In America, A Family Affair, The Pear Bottle.  

Television - Fear, Red Eye, Shetland  series VI & VII (regular character Meg Pattison), Group, Outlander, NY-LON. 

Theatre - Sing Street (Lyric, Hammersmith); So Young (Traverse); Crocodile Fever (Traverse); Ulster American (Traverse/International Tour); The Macbeths, Bold Girls and The Libertine (Citizens, Glasgow); The Numbered, Sacrifice at Easter and Woyzeck (Corcadorca); What Put the Blood, Riders To The Sea and Translations (Abbey, Dublin); Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (National Theatre Tour); Jumpy, The Weir, A Doll's House and Blood and Ice (Edinburgh Lyceum); Dance of Death (Vox Motus/Citizens, Glasgow); Lovers (Cumbernauld Theatre); Andromaque (Oran Mor); March of Women (Glasgow Women's Library); Horizontal Collaboration (Fire Exit/Traverse); Leaving Planet Earth (Grid Iron/EIF); The Making of Us (Tramway/National Theatre of Scotland); Instructions for a Butterfly Collector (Oran Mor/Traverse/National Theatre of Scotland); The Ladies Cage (Finborough); Festen (Birmingham Rep/Tour); The Thebans (Theatre Babel); The Boy Who Fell Into A Book (English Touring Theatre); Hinterland (National/Out Of Joint); Mutabilitie (Samuel Beckett Centre) and Dolly West’s Kitchen (Old Vic/Abbey, Dublin).  

Radio - An Eye For A Killing, I Don’t Believe You, Lanny, Saddled (2 series), The Vital Spark:Intelligence, Stardust, If I Could Fly. 

CREATIVE TEAM BIOGRAPHIES:

Douglas Maxwell

Douglas Maxwell has been one of Scotland’s top playwrights since his debut in the year 2000. 

So Young, was first staged during the Edinburgh Fringe 2024, winning a Fringe First, The Hector Macmillan Award for Best Play (as voted for by Scottish playwrights) and Best Play at the Critics’ Awards Scotland (CATS) 2025.  The Sheriff of Kalamaki was also named Best Play at the CATS in 2024. He was recently awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Association of Scottish Literature. 

Previous work includes the book for the mainstage musical Orphans and the short play Fatbaws, both produced by the National Theatre of Scotland.  Fatbaws starred Peter Mullan and was screened on BBC Scotland. It was watched by over a million people and nominated for a Scottish BAFTA.

Other notable shows include Man’s Best Friend at The Tron and a recent Scottish tour, I Can Go Anywhere at The Traverse, Charlie Sonata at The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, The Whip Hand at Birmingham Rep/Traverse, Yer Granny for the National Theatre of Scotland, Fever Dream: Southside for The Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, Decky Does a Bronco for Gridiron, Mancub for Vanishing Point, Promises Promises for Random Accomplice and A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity for A Play A Pie and A Pint/Traverse. 

Translations of his plays have been professionally produced all over the world, including South Korea, where his debut play Our Bad Magnet ran for over a decade in ten different productions.  The play has a Korean fan community (called The Iron Filings) who write fan fiction based on the characters and trade merchandise.

His work for teenage audiences includes Too Fast for the National Theatre UK The Mother Ship for Birmingham Rep, At First I was Afraid…(I Was Petrified!) For Wonderfools and Helmet for The Traverse/Paines Plough. 

Douglas teaches playwriting at all levels and has been a mentor to countless writers and theatre makers.

He lives of the Southside of Glasgow with his wife and two daughters. 

For more information please go to www.douglasmaxwell.co.uk

Gareth Nicholls

Gareth Nicholls is Artistic Director of the Traverse Theatre.

For the Traverse, his shows include Black Hole Sign by Uma Nada-Rajah, So Young by Douglas Maxwell, The Grand Old Opera House Hotel by Isobel McArthur, Wilf by James Ley, Still by Frances Poet, The Monstrous Heart by Oliver Emanuel, Crocodile Fever by Meghan Tyler, Ulster American by David Ireland, Arctic Oil by Clare Duffy, How To Disappear by Morna Pearson and Letters to Morrissey by Gary McNair.

Other productions include: Kidnapped by Isobel McArthur (National Theatre of Scotland), Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, Blackbird by David Harrower, Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny, Vanya by Sam Holcroft (Citizens Theatre); God Of Carnage by Yasmina Reza, Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (Tron Theatre), A Gamblers Guide To Dying by Gary McNair (Show & Tell), Educating Ronnie by Joe Douglas (Utter).

His work has toured extensively across the UK as well as transferring to Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and USA. Gareth has won numerous awards including six Scotsman Fringe Firsts.

Previously, he was Main-Stage Director in Residence at the Citizens Theatre, Artist In Residence at Imaginate International Children’s Festival and an Emerging Artist at the National Theatre of Scotland.

Kenny Miller

Kenny Miller is a freelance designer and director who was for many years Head of Design/Associate Director at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. He has worked in theatre and opera both nationally and internationally, designing and directing for many companies.

He has won three Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland: Scrooge (Best Production); Smoking With Lulu (Best Technical) and A Little Bit of Ruff (Best Ensemble). He has also won the Manchester Evening News Award for 10 Rillington Place (Best Designed Production).

Recent credits as Designer: She's Behind You and So Young (Traverse Theatre), Rapunzel, The Tin Forest, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off and Our Teacher’s A Troll (National Theatre of Scotland); The Bookies, Smile, Deathtrap (Dundee Rep); The Cherry Orchard, The Weir, Bird (Royal Exchange Manchester); A Doll’s House, Romeo and Juliet (Sherman Cymru); There's A Place, Macbeth, Blithe Spirit, Proof and Tam O’Shanter (Perth Theatre); Crocodile Rock, A New Life (Sleeping Warrior Theatre Company national tour); Blanche & Butch (also directed), In An Alien Landscape, The Man Who Lived Twice (Birds of Paradise Theatre Company & national tour); Unicorn Dance Party, Unicorn Christmas Party (Raw Material); The Dolls Abroad, The Dolls – Dragged Up (national tour); for the Studio3 2025 Season: Alright Sunshine, Fleg and Fruitcake; Peter Panto & the Incredible Stinkerbell, Radiant Vermin, Aganeza Scrooge, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Motherfucker With The Hat, Mammy Goose, Miracle on 34 Parnie Street (Tron Theatre); Cuttin’ A Rug, Marilyn (Citizens Theatre/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Slug, Clockwork (Visible Fictions); The Bookie (Cumbernauld Theatre & national tour); Doubt: A Parable, the UK premiere of Autobahn (also codirected), Lady M: His Fiend-Like Queen (Theatre Jezebel/Tron Theatre); The Steamie (national tour, OVO Hydro/Dundee Rep), Born Bad (Scottish Youth Theatre).

Recent credits as Designer and Director: Witness for the Prosecution, And Then There Were None (Dundee Rep); April in Paris, And The Beat Goes On (Perth Theatre); Fame The Musical, The Addams Family, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Grease, Legally Blonde (UK Theatre School); Olive the Other Reindeer, Cinderfella, Alice in Weegieland, Sleeping Betty, Peter Panto and The Incredible Stinkerbell (Tron Theatre); Harold and Maude, Days of Wine and Roses (Theatre Jezebel).

Kate Bonney

Kate loves to make work that delights an audience and to help tell stories that deserve to be told. Recent credits include Hercules the Bear and Gaggle with Tenterhooks, Laaaunch! with Starcatchers and Dirlebane, Playfight with Grace Dickson Productions and The Testament of Gideon Mack with Dogstar. 

Niroshini Thambar

Niroshini is a musician, composer and sound designer working across theatre, audio-visual installation, film and participatory arts.

Theatre credits: Period Parrrty (Soho Theatre/Kali Theatre), Auntie Empire (Disaster Plan/Jordan & Skinner), 39 Steps (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), This is a Gift (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Death of a Salesman (Trafalgar Productions/Raw Material) Snake in the Grass (Dundee Rep), So Young (Traverse Theatre/Citizens’ Theatre/Raw Material), The Brenda Line (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) Sho and the Demons of the Deep (Independent Arts Projects/National Theatre of Scotland), Cyprus Avenue (Tron Theatre/Trafalgar Productions),  Jinnistan (Play Pie Pint), Little Women (Pitlochry Festival Theatre/Watford Palace Theatre/Home MCR), Scent of Roses (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), The Bookies (Dundee Rep), Ghosts (National Theatre of Scotland), The Tempest (Tron Theatre), Gagarin Way (Dundee Rep).

Audio-drama/Radio/Film credits: Associate Director for Niqabi Ninja (Independent Arts Projects /Hewar Company), Series Composer for United Kingdoms (Naked Productions/BBC Radio 4), Composer for Helping Hands (Pitlochry Festival Theatre/Sound Stage), Sound Designer for The One with the Lockdown: Scenes for Survival (National Theatre Scotland /BBC Scotland/Screen Scotland)

Nik Paget-Tomlinson

Nik Paget-Tomlinson is a musician, composer, sound designer and Foley artist who creates work for theatre, dance, film and listening.

Nik is part of The Grim Collective with Jack Hunter, was a founder member of trip hop collective 3 Bag Brew, and formed electronica duo Puchi with Niroshini Thambar.

As composer and sound designer Nik has worked with a wide range of theatre and dance companies including National Theatre of Scotland, Citizens Theatre, Grid Iron, Dundee Rep, Independent Arts Projects, A Play a Pie and a Pint, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh and Imaginate.

Emily Jane Boyle

EJ is a Choreographer, Movement Director and Intimacy Director. 

Theatre: Small Acts of Love, Oresteia: This Restless House, Trainspotting, Cuttin’ a Rug, Lanark (Citizens Theatre); The Grand Old Opera House Hotel, Adults, Wilf (Traverse);      Leopoldstadt (West End/Broadway); Make It Happen, Kidnapped (NTS);

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) (West End/Toronto/Tron); Black Hole Sign (Tron); The Mirror and the Light, The Fair Maid of The West, Henry VI (RSC); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sunshine on Leith (UK Tours); Exit the King (National Theatre); The Seagull, Hedda Gabler, Jumpy (Royal Lyceum); The Glass Menagerie, Great Expectations, Tay Bridge, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (Dundee Rep); Nachtland, Nora: A Doll’s House (Young Vic); Maggie, Hi My Name is Ben (Goodspeed); Measure For Measure (Shakespeare’s Globe); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent's Park).

Film and Television: Summerwater (Channel 4);

The Crown (Netflix); Our Ladies (Sony); In Plain Sight (ITV); God Help the Girl (Sundance), Still Game: Live, Two Doors Down, Glasgow Commonwealth Games (BBC)

RAW MATERIAL

Founded by Margaret-Anne O’Donnell and Gillian Garrity, Raw Material is an award-winning, independent producing house, based in Scotland. With over 20 years of experience making and touring Scottish theatre around the world, we believe theatre plays a crucial role in championing socio-political change. Our shared ambition to develop, create and tour bold, accessible theatre that inspires, entertains and captivates audiences across borders formed the foundations of our company. We are advocates for access and diversity within the theatre sector and are passionate about enabling creative ambition, developing new models for success and supporting all stages of making theatre happen. We develop, commission and support theatre makers at all stages of their career. As a non-funded independent theatre production company we fund and produce theatre made in Scotland for Scottish audiences and for international tours. 

Since inception in 2018, Raw Material has produced work both in the UK and internationally. Productions include Wallace (with A Play, A Pie and a Pint, 2025), Windblown (2025), So Young (with Traverse Theatre Company in association with Citizens Theatre, 2024/2025), Scots (in association with Beacon Arts Centre, 2026), Saint Joan (with Aberdeen Performing Arts, Perth Theatre, in association with Citizens Theatre, 2026), Death Of A Salesman (with Trafalgar Theatre Productions, 2025), Lear (in association with National Theatre Of Scotland, 2025), James V: Katherine (with Capital Theatres, 2024), James IV Queen of the Fight (with Capital Theatres in association with National Theatre of Scotland, UK 2022), Love Beyond (with Ramesh Meyyappan and Vanishing Point, in association with Aberdeen Performing Arts UK 2023/2024) The Stamping Ground (with Eden Court Highlands, UK 2022 & 2023), In The Interest of Health and Safety Can Patrons Kindly Supervise Their Children at all Times (with 21Common, UK 2022), Unicorn Christmas Party (with HMT Aberdeen, Eden Court Highlands & Capital Theatres, UK 2021, 2022 & 2023), Unicorn Dance Party (UK 21 & 22), The Signalman (with Perth Theatre, UK 2021), Glasgow Girls (in association with Regular Music, UK & International 2019), Dancing In the Streets (with Edinburgh International Festival, UK 2019), What Girls Are Made Of (with Traverse Theatre, UK & International 2018, 2019, 2023), We Are In Time (with Untitled Projects & Scottish Ensemble, UK 2019), After The Cuts (with Beacon Arts Centre, UK 2018), Off Kilter (with Tron Theatre & TheatreWorks, Singapore, UK & International 2018/19), The Spinners (UK 2019), Beats Per Minute (Glasgow 2018).  

TRAVERSE THEATRE

As Scotland’s new writing theatre, the Traverse Theatre is a dynamic centre for performance, experience and discovery. Enabling people across society to access and engage with theatre is our fundamental mission.

Our year-round programme bursts with new stories and live performances that challenge, inform and entertain. We empower artists and audiences to make sense of the world today, providing a safe space to question, learn, empathise and – crucially – encounter different people and experiences. Conversation and the coming together of groups are central to a democratic society, and we champion equal expression and understanding.

We commission, produce and programme for existing and future audiences to offer new and exciting experiences for everyone, and our partnerships with other theatre companies and festivals enable us to present a wide range of innovative performances.

The Traverse would not exist without our over-arching passion for talent development and embracing the unexplored. We work with the newest and rawest talent – with an emphasis on the Scottish-based – nurturing it to become the art, artists and performances that can be seen on our stages through a variety of creative learning and literary programmes.

The timely, powerful stories that start life on our stages have a global impact, resulting in dozens of tours, productions and translations. We are critically acclaimed and recognised the world over for our originality and artistic risk, which we hope will create some of the most talked-about plays, productions, directors, writers and actors for years to come.

As a registered Scottish charity (SC002368), we depend on donations to keep our stage doors wide open, to work with schools and community groups, to produce ambitious theatre, to keep ticket prices affordable – and to do more and better for you at our theatre in Edinburgh, sparking creativity throughout the local community and across the globe.